From Mao to Mozart - Isaac Stern in China
by Murray Lerner
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Actor: Ching-Ling Soong, David Golub, Isaac Stern, Leonard WoodcockDirector: Murray Lerner
Brand: New Video
Cinematographer: David Bridges
Cinematographer: Nick Doob
Producer: Murray Lerner
Editor: Thomas Haneke
Producer: Walter Scheuer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-02-27
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: New Video Group
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- In 1979, as China re-opened its doors to the West, virtuoso Isaac Stern received an unprecedented invitation from its governernment to tour the country. This extraordinary experience became the landmark, Oscar-winning documentary FROM MAO TO MOZART--a beautiful expression of two different cultures brought together by a single man and the music that they shareDuring his month-long journey, Stern ta
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DVD Review: Isaac Stern and the Chinese People's love for Violin Music
Summary: 5 Stars
Developing the hearts and souls to musical involvement and passion, Isaac Stern meets and plays violin with musicians and gives performances as he tours China. He finds great technical ability, but a lack of understanding. He teaches that there is more to music than just playing the notes, but rather making the notes and lines say something, that words cannot express. As they say in the film, to know the taste of a pear, you must eat it, you cannot study it. So it is with music, you must play it, experience it, feel it. You cannot just study it, but you must be involved intimately. He teaches that the violin is a part of your body, and use the violin to sing as you would sing with your voice. One little girl was told to sing a phrase she had been playing in. After she sang it she was able to play it again with the feeling she had when she sang. Another woman was given demonstrations of phrasing and dancing in the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso. She had great technical ability to play fast, but played just notes, missing the flirtaciousness of a dance. Isaac demonstrates it and even does a big of a jig to show her how it works.
The sequel (20 years later) was heartwarming. Beijing had transformed herself into a modern metropolis. We meet some of the students and the conductor that had worked with Isaac 20 years ago. It was a heartwarming reunion.
Special attention to luthiers. There is a documentary of Shanghai luthier Tan Shu-chen and his life story (in the Extras), his love for violin, his love of music, and his Christian family background. He was the first Chinese to play in a foreign symphony orchestra. It also goes through the history of 20th century China. There is an incident where the violinists were told to go play for the Japanese officers. Tan refused to play for them and resigned his job. Also interesting postwar history, how he made it through the war, how he stayed in China after 1949, and how he turned to making violins after becoming director of the Shanghai conservatory with lack of instruments. He started a small factory, making violins to give to the students free of charge. He was denounced by a student and his house raided in the Cultural Revolution and imprisoned in a closet in a basement under the stairs and kept away from his violins for more than a year, made to repair toilets, taking care of 122 toilets and taken out for beatings and tortures by the Red Guards. They poured boiling water into one of the musician's ear deafening him. 17 musicians committed suicide under the harsh treatment and humiliation. He never thought of suicide because he is a Christian. He just waited and the sun came out eventually. Later he was cleared and reinstated in the Shanghai Conservatory. Later he saw the Red Guard who was convicted for 8 years of prison, and then later worked again in the conservatory kitchen. He said that if the Guard would talk to him, he would forgive him, and let bygones be bygones. Forgiveness gives him peace of mind. It is so wonderful to know that his faith in Jesus Christ has kept him sane and prospering while in such circumstances. He can now make and play the violins that he so loves. What an uplifting story.
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Studio: New Video Group Release Date: 02/27/2001 Run time: 115 minutes Rating: NrBestsellers in DVD
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